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I was under the impression that the megaupload servers weren't paid for after Kim's assets got frozen. Leaseweb was forced to keep the data for the duration of
by gizmo 13y ago
I was under the impression that the megaupload servers weren't paid for after Kim's assets got frozen. Leaseweb was forced to keep the data for the duration of the investigation, and had to eat the losses. My guess is that Leaseweb reached the point where they just want to cut their losses and move on. I highly doubt Leaseweb wiped the Megaupload servers "just because".
This looks like an attempt by Kim to create outrage and bad PR for Leaseweb.
- kzrdude 13y agoThere shouldn't need to be any bad PR for leaseweb.. they need to do what they must do. The bad PR should be for the american operation to shut this down.. now evidence is lost in the case. Of course there doesn't seem to be a real case going, I think they are satisfied with the destruction caused already.
- s_henry_paulson 13y agoDisagree. Let's say you are accused of robbing a convenience store. The police take the security footage, review it, and then erase it. According to everyone that saw the tape, you did it, and perhaps they even retain a few seconds of footage that shows something like a coat that you own. Would you think it fair that one party gets to use evidence to convict you, that you yourself are not allowed to see, or use for your own defense?
- tehwalrus 13y agoIn this case, the videotape also contains a lot of peoples' personal files that they were hoping to get back one day, maybe. (Pre-emptive edit: I'm not saying the host should have to take losses for this; the investigators should have been responsible for paying for/backing up the 3rd party data.)
- Cthulhu_ 13y agoMore analogy, what if it was one of those storage space services and one customer rented half the storage units to store other people's stuff, then got arrested and no longer paid for the storage units. And the storage units were gold-plated and cooled and cost a fixed amount a minute they're used.
- stephengillie 13y agoWhat if the police had to keep the convenience store closed until the trial? I believe that's a more accurate analogy. The convenience store owner would be furious about the lost business from having to shutter the store for months or years, watching as formerly faithful customers just walk on by.
- codeoclock 13y agoLeaseweb isn't closed. They just had to store some servers. They could just turn them off, put them in storage, then sue law enforcement or the DOJ equivalent for the opportunity cost and storage costs. That's not an accurate analogy at all.
- rmc 13y agoTurning them off might not be an option. Disks that are encrypted would them become unreadable when turned off.
- stephengillie 13y agoWith which encryption software?
- brokenparser 13y agoGMemcachePG
- eridius 13y agoDisks that become unreadable when they lose power aren't called disks, they're called RAM.
- Shish2k 13y ago> then sue law enforcement or the DOJ equivalent for the opportunity cost and storage costs Does suing the government ever actually work? (Honest question, I'm not an American and I've only seen people try to sue in high-profile cases like PRISM, which never seems to get them anywhere)
- onli 13y agoWhat losses? We talk about data here. The disks used were not available for future business, that are only potential losses, not a further and further amount of high costs piling up. Besides, in which state is it legal to destroy evidence, especially before the trial?
- mtgx 13y agoI doubt it. They could've at least give a warning "hey if you don't way us within the next 10 days we're going to delete everything". I'm sure they expected the backlash, too, if they were going to do it without warning. So this looks like they were forced to do it in some way.